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• It was a joy to snatch some brief respite, and find himself in the rectory drawing–room. Listening here was as pleasant as talking; just to watch was pleasant. The young priests who lived here wore cassocks and birettas; their faces were fine and mild, yet really strong, like the rector's face; and in their intercourse with him and his wife they seemed to be brothers.
• (intransitif) He kept snatching at the bird flying around in the room.
• (transitif) She snatched the knife out of the baby's hands.
• “[...]You want me to ask Brandy to let you paint her naked body with all this gooey stuff to make a mold of her snatch?”
• Roughly Santino ripped the sheet from the bed, exposing all of her. She had blond hair on her snatch, which drove him crazy. He was partial to blondes.
• Claude, is it true what they say about Olovia? Of course she’s getting a little old for us—what about Marilyum, did you try her snatch?
• I heard a snatch of Mozart as I passed the open window.
• The leftfielder makes a nice snatch to end the inning.
• He snatched a glimpse of her while her mother had her back turned.
• He snatched a sandwich before catching the train.
• He snatched up the phone.
• But, with United fans in celebratory mood as it appeared their team might snatch glory, they faced an anxious wait as City equalised in stoppage time.
• Someone has just snatched my purse!
• Snatch me to heaven.
• He snatched the letter out of the secretary's hand.
• "How many times have I told you?" she cried, and seized him and snatched his stick away from him.
• to snatch at a rope
• to snatch a kiss
• when half our knowledge we must snatch, not take